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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1918
Page
8
In Pomeroy Bend and surrounding Racine to Hobson areas communities display patriotism with flags on mine sites and public buildings. Bomber McGinnis speaks to miners, praising coal production and denouncing German treachery while praising Red Cross efforts and predicting the Allied victory in France.
The local draft order prompts clerks salesmen barkeepers idlers and others to seek positions. Many succeed some lack backbone and fail to land work. Six or seven Pomeroy youths left for Nitro on the Kanawha River where a government plant is being built and they will relay word to others in the same situation.
After days missing from the courthouse Squire J. H. Ewing is found at his Mulberry Avenue hillside home hampered by rheumatic pain in his left shoulder. He remains unable to leave the premises while the grip of the ailment eases.
Mrs J A Miller chaired the Hemlock Grove formation of the Meigs County unit with twenty three members. Alta Nelson became president and Ora Barnhill secretary. Pomeroy Unit scheduled a meeting at the Public Library Monday at 7 30 PM with committees to report as food and coal concerns are addressed.
Oscar Dobbs and Mrs. Dobbs visit the Bernd to stay with Mrs. Dobbs’s father Lewis Moody of Hemlock Grove and her grandfather Michael Moody of Lincoln Hill while in town.
Mr and Mrs John Gabbart and their children of Sugar Run left today for an over Sunday visit with friends and relatives at Parkersburg.
EB D Will and daughter Dorothy travel to Cincinnati for the University of Cincinnati graduation exercises where Miss Lucile Will graduates as a nurse. Brother Frank Will of Camp Sherman joins the family in the Queen City for the event.
President I. L. Oppenheimer of the O R BE Ry and P Coleft by automobile for an upstate vacation via Columbus for recreation and a few days rest from business affairs.
Dr. R. B. Church who earlier received a commission in the dental corps is ordered to report to Akron University in Akron and plans to depart for the city this Sunday.
By Friday noon the Meigs county War Savings sales report shows a cumulative total of 18966 dollars 13 cents. Democratic workers are credited with 12662 dollars 33 cents and Republican workers with 6303 dollars 80 cents.
R G Dick Collien now of Cleveland formerly of Syracuse visited Pomeroy on Friday in support of the Fourth Liberty Loan. He works with the publicity department of the Cleveland district.
Eddie Smith of Pomeroy who enlisted in the motor truck service is reported to be now in France.
Large crowd gathers on Pom eroy streets for Bomber McGinnis remarks. The American boy who served with a Canadian regiment in the trenches is introduced by Judge A P Miller. Lee Hall of United Mine Workers leads the meeting under their auspices.
The passenger and freight packet 8 L Elam arrived at the old wharff landing at Lynn Street and discharged a small freight consignment. Boats have since used Rolling Mill landing after removal of the old wharff boat. It may be the Elam misguided toward Pomeroy Bend harbor.
Residents of Union Avenue near Mulberry Street, deprived of city water since January, saw a crew excavate yesterday as part of repairs to old water pipes eighteen inches below the surface. The work marks the first major project by the new water company and should restore water service for residents after over six months.
Friday the John Hancock High School Literary Society held its final meeting of the first year in Ellis Hall at 9 30 A M. J F Stewart assistant principal presented a service flag for Fred Spaulding. Athletic letters were awarded to basketball and baseball players including Ernest Wise Ralph White Almon Edwards and others. A copy of the School Annual was presented to Miss Mary Connett. Ralph Arick read on Agriculture and the World War and Freda Bowen gave a reading. Closing remarks were by Wilbur Emilsh president of the senior class. The meeting adjourned for a school picnic.
Children using Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children show improved movement of bowels relieve feverishness teething disorders constipation headaches worm destruction and colds breakups. For 26c at druggists everywhere mothers should keep a box in the house for immediate use.
In the wartime period daily fashion shifts as women adapt outfits to rationing and practical needs. Skirts are described as higher in length and utility, reflecting a broader move toward modest, functional attire amid national shortages.
A review of the U S Food Administration led by Herbert Hoover highlights voluntary farmer cooperation and consumer restraint that cut flour prices, boosted grain production, and reduced sugar margins. It credits Americans with sacrificial resolve, feeding Allies and strengthening the nation’s war effort while avoiding gratuitous profits.
A California Sunday school of Chinese children sent 18.75 to the American Red Cross for Chinese laborers in France. The donation reflects cross country aid and humanitarian work during wartime.
From Picardy May 18 United Press. American troops in a small village hear a concert by a band of marching soldiers. The moonlit scene features an open road, a pond wall, and the band playing La Paloma and the Marseillaise amid front line drums. Soldiers and locals salute and sing as they prepare for the next move.
In New Marshfield Ohio on June 14 Postmaster F G Hoodler and helpers Garrett Collins Leslie Collins and Dallas Townsend travel to Parkersburg West Virginia for naval examinations. Garrett Collins and Dallas Townsend pass but Leslie Collins weighs nine pounds light for his height. They depart to Newport Rhode Island and will ask mothers to raise a service flag. Leslie regrets the shortfall but plans to eat corn bread to gain weight. Two Collins brothers already joined the service with a third ready to go after the nine pound gain. The piece notes over 200 ambulance cars supplied by the American Red Cross to aid Italian forces after the US entry into the war with Austria.
Mr. Thomas Tresise returned home from Columbus Tuesday. Miss Ernestine Bean works for Canaan Coal at Canaanville. The Bean and Mansfield families hosted relatives and friends across Amesville, The Plains, and Canaanville. Community gatherings included Guysville Presbyterian and M E Church services with visiting kin and locals.
The Ohio War Board requires public eating places to serve no more than 2 ounces of Victory bread or rolls and no more than 4 ounces of quick breads per person per meal. Patrons should report violations to local Food Administration Committees. The message urges saving wheat and other foods through harvest to win the war.
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